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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In antiquity, an artist or artisan in metal.
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Canachus of Sicyon, who seems to have comprehended in himself all the various attainments in art which had been gradually developed in the schools of his native city -- carver in wood, sculptor, brass-cutter, and toreutes; by toreuticê+ being meant the whole art of statuary in metals, and in their combination with other materials.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866
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